Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-04-29
A REMARKABLE WOMAN.

IL ltlIln W ~'~A@'
AFTER RECEIVING THIRTY-SEVEN
WOUNDS, SHE CAPTURES HER
ASSAILANT.
Mrs. Shackelford, a youthful
widow who manages cotton
plantation of $500 acres near
Pleasant Hill, in Alabama. is now
in New Orleans, and is looked up
on as a heroine for the bravery she
exhibited during "A murderous as
sault upon her by one OF the
cOlored lsbOrers on her plantation.
Her maiden name was Annie
Perrine, and she was educated at
Vassar College. When fifteen years
old she returned to her fathers
home in Alabama, and soon after
wards was married TO A. p. Shack
leford, OF Virginia. She then had
an income of nearly $4,000, but
during visit to California with
her husband her fortune was swept
away as if in a single night. In
stead Of giving up in despair, she
kept the wolf from the door by
corresponding with New York
journals until she saved enough to
pay her way back to her fathers
home.
On reaching there she was called
upon to face another emergency
Years and past troubles had so
sllyered the locks of her father
that he had been unable to run the
place as he had in by gone days,
and a debt of $4,000, bearing a
heavy interest, was increasing so
rapidly that it was only question
of time for the mortgage to swat
low up the old homestead. She
became her fathers manager, and
in doing this she was compelled to
be in the saddle from four in the
morning till night, and this has
been her life since she was seven
teen years Of age. At the end OF
five years her husband died, and
she was left widow with one
child, now bright little fellow of
four years. Three years ago she
paid off every dollar the plantation
owed, and now owns the property
free of debt. She raises every
year 100 bales of cotton, besides
corn and market supplies for home
consumption and sale. A portion
of the plantation is leased to color
ed labOrers, and she has to collect
rents from 1SG tenants. She has
had great trouble with some or the
strange colored tenants, and
servant girl, in revenge for a re
fusal to 90 to a dance, poisoned
her little boy. The baby lay a.
deaths door for while, but finally
| recovered.
| On the Goth of last January sh'
| unexpectedly returned to the hous'
| and found a huge cOlored man II
| her room searching for valuables
She presented pistol at his heat
| aud ordered him to surrender
| He advanced upon her armed will
a razor, and she snapped the pistol
but it proved to be uuloaded, ant
| in the struggle that ensued she Re
ceived thirty seven wounds. Sh
sank exhausted, and her assailan
escaped from the house. AS 500
as he turned to flee she sezel
another pistol, mounted her hors
and, overtaking the ruflian, brough
him down with successful shot
and he was taken to prison. Afte
being confined TO her room with he
wounds, she recovered. The tria
of this man for the cutting OF Mrs
Shackelford Is fixed for this week
and as he wrote two letters to he
notifying her that if she did no
withdraw the charge he wOul
have her murdered, her friends ad
vised her, under the circumstances
to make a statement before
Justice of the Peace and then leav
the county until the trial was oyel
which she did, and came to Me-
Orleans.-RichmOnd Wing.